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Validity domain of the Benney equation including the Marangoni effect for closed and open flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2005

B. SCHEID
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie-Physique E.P., Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/62, 1050 Brussels, Belgiumbscheid@ulb.ac.be Laboratoire FAST, UMR 7608, CNRS, Universités P. et M. Curie et Paris Sud, Bât. 502, Campus Universitaire, 91405 Orsay Cedex, Franceruyer@fast.u-psud.fr
C. RUYER-QUIL
Affiliation:
Laboratoire FAST, UMR 7608, CNRS, Universités P. et M. Curie et Paris Sud, Bât. 502, Campus Universitaire, 91405 Orsay Cedex, Franceruyer@fast.u-psud.fr
U. THIELE
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germanythiele@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
O. A. KABOV
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie-Physique E.P., Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/62, 1050 Brussels, Belgiumbscheid@ulb.ac.be Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
J. C. LEGROS
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie-Physique E.P., Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/62, 1050 Brussels, Belgiumbscheid@ulb.ac.be
P. COLINET
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie-Physique E.P., Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/62, 1050 Brussels, Belgiumbscheid@ulb.ac.be

Abstract

The Benney equation including thermocapillary effects is considered to study a liquid film flowing down a homogeneously heated inclined wall. The link between the finite-time blow-up of the Benney equation and the absence of the one-hump travelling-wave solution of the associated dynamical system is accurately demonstrated in the whole range of linearly unstable wavenumbers. Then the blow-up boundary is tracked in the whole space of parameters accounting for flow rate, surface tension, inclination and thermocapillarity. In particular, the latter two effects can strongly reduce the validity range of the Benney equation. It is also shown that the subcritical bifurcation found for falling films with the Benney equation is related to the blow-up of solutions and is unphysical in all cases, even with the thermocapillary effect though in contrast to horizontally heated films. The accuracy of bounded solutions of the Benney equation is determined by comparison with a reference weighted integral boundary layer model. A distinction is made between closed and open flow conditions, when calculating travelling-wave solutions; the former corresponds to the conservation of mass and the latter to the conservation of flow rate. The open flow condition matches experimental conditions more closely and is explored for the first time through the associated dynamical system. It yields bounded solutions for larger Reynolds numbers than the closed flow condition. Finally, solutions that are conditionally bounded are found to be unstable to disturbances of larger periodicity. In this case, coalescence is the pathway yielding finite-time blow-up.

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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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